I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralysed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something a great deal to do with how we live our lives and whom we end up speaking with and hearing and that we can deflect words by trivialization, of course, but also by ritualized respect, or we can let them enter our souls and mix with the juices of our minds.
Quotes about paralysed (3 Quotes)
What about the hero of The House on the Strand? What did it mean when he dropped the telephone at the end of the book? I don't really know, but I rather think he was going to be paralysed for life. Don't you?
To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.